Egypt releases 1,000 prisoners in Eid al-Fitr amnesty
The ministry did not specify whether those pardoned had been convicted for criminal or political reasons.
Last Friday, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi pardoned a first group of 502 prisoners, including 25 women and a number of young people detained for taking part in recent protests.
Late last year, al-Sisi ordered a committee to be drawn up to look into the prospect of pardoning young people jailed and convicted for relatively minor offences.